News
Women increasingly targeted in huge sentences on ‘spying / treason’ charges in Russian-occupied Luhansk region
29.08.2025
Even if the victims are not physically tortured, it is near certain that they were abducted, held incommunicado and not given access to independent lawyers before guaranteed 'convictions' and huge sentences on charges of surreal cynicism
War and ‘Russian world’ propaganda instead of learning foreign languages in schools in occupied Ukraine
29.08.2025
Russia has already knocked out ‘defence of rights and liberties’, other ‘destructive western ideology’ and is seeking to brainwash children in occupied Ukraine that they should be ready to fight and die for Russia
Russia drops lethal flower petal mines in ongoing terror against civilians in Kherson
28.08.2025
Such landmines are clearly targeting civilians as are the Russian drones with which Russia has been found to be committing crimes against humanity in Kherson and Kherson oblast
Daily ‘treason trials’ expose Russia’s lies about mass support in occupied Crimea
27.08.2025
The 'trial' of Serhiy Bodnarashyk was something of a record-maker for the swiftness of the sentence, but all such 'trials' are broadly identical in their secrecy and in the fact that convictions and long sentences are guaranteed
Russia is killing 70-year-old Halyna Dovhopola, sentenced to 12 years for loving Ukraine
26.08.2025
Halyna earlier wrote that she and other political prisoners are waiting and “fighting for our life, so as to not “die in Russia” behind barbed wire”, She urgently needs our help
Crimean Tatar journalist and human rights defender faces new prosecution for reporting Russian repression
26.08.2025
Russia's persecution of Lutfiye Zudiyeva began back in 2019 because the courageous Crimean Solidarity human rights defender refused to be silent about Russia's violations in occupied Crimea, The regime's new moves place her in even greater danger
Russia sentences young Crimean woman to 15 years after abducting and holding her incommunicado for ten months
22.08.2025
This was more akin to an enforced disappearance, than an 'arrest', one of a terrifying number that Russia brought with its invasion of Crimea
Seven months of torture for Russian show trial of Ukrainians abducted from occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast
22.08.2025
Russia calls opposing its invasion ‘international terrorism’ , not its abduction, torture and monstrous sentences against three Ukrainians
Russia releases gravely ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner after causing the death of several others
21.08.2025
Lenur Khalilov should never have been imprisoned, and is likely to have been ill for a long time without any reaction
Russian court sentences Memorial Head to 6 years for calling persecuted Ukrainian POWs political prisoners
20.08.2025
Russia will not, at least, be able to execute its sentence against Sergei Davidis, unlike the Azov POWs and hundreds of other Ukrainian prisoners of war and political prisoners
Publications
Free people first! An Open Letter to the President of the United States
15.08.2025
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, human rights and press freedom defenders, former political prisoners, and families of those still in detention and captivity appealed to President Trump.
Borisov Case a Test of Ukraine’s Commitment to European Human Rights Standards
14.08.2025
Human rights activists are calling for refugee status to be granted to Russian citizen Ivan Borisov, who faces imprisonment in the Russian Federation.
Abductions of Ukrainian Women and Girls
31.07.2025
ADC Memorial and KhPG submitted analytical material to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances.
Silence—as a form of torture
31.07.2025
How and why Russia deliberately deprives Ukrainian prisoners of any information from the Motherland.
Torture of civilians by Russians in temporarily occupied territory is a crime against humanity (Press release)
26.06.2025
Today, the 'T4P' Initiative presented a communication to the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC, substantiating that the torture of civilians in Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories constitutes both a crime against humanity and a war crime.
‘I got caught in your meat grinder’ — the appeals court in the Russian Federation upheld Ukrainian Ivan Zabavsky behind bars
23.06.2025
The Second Appeals Court in St. Petersburg upheld the sentence of Ukrainian Ivan Zabavsky, a resident of the Kharkiv region, sentenced to 11 years. In 2022, the occupiers captured him when he tried to save his mother, whose home was literally on the front line.
Churches of the Donetsk region: The number of Russian attacks has increased this year
09.06.2025
A few days before the “truce” announced by Russian dictator Putin, Russian troops attacked the Church of St. Ambrose of Optina in Dobropillya twice. Pokrovsk, Toretsk, and Kostiantynivka churches were also destroyed or damaged. Journalist Serhiy Okunev reported fresh information from the frontline cities about Russian attacks on churches.
Which civilians were released during the significant exchange?
30.05.2025
Among the 120 civilians exchanged on May 23 was one political prisoner and 15 individuals who had been convicted of crimes in Ukraine and illegally deported to the Russian Federation from temporarily occupied territories. In addition, many Ukrainians who once committed crimes in Russia and have already served their sentences there were returned. How will their homeland welcome them?
Go to the enemy for evidence? Civilians who went through Russian torture chambers demand justice
29.05.2025
Go through the torture chambers of the Vovchansky Aggregate Plant and never receive the status of a person who was deprived of personal freedom as a result of armed aggression against Ukraine. Why is the current law on the protection of civilian prisoners discriminatory?
Captivity, death sentence, and six Russian drone attacks. The story of a volunteer who saves civilians in the Donetsk region
29.05.2025
Yevhen Tkachov has been volunteering since 2014. He was captured and almost died. But after being released, he did not stop evacuating people from dangerous areas.
They let you talk to a prisoner and then blackmail you into committing sabotage
23.05.2025
Russian special services are trying to use the families of prisoners of war for criminal actions.
Yevhen Zakharov: Ukrainians are tortured in Russian captivity to break them physically and morally
21.05.2025
Mordovia, Grozny, and even distant Minusinsk - human rights activists have already identified 127 places of imprisonment where the Russians are holding our citizens. We talked to the director of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, Yevhen Zakharov, about which institutions our prisoners are held in, whether the conditions of detention are the same, and how many Ukrainians end up on trial in the Russian Federation.